⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Suns got 15 points ahead of the pace we expected in the first quarter and stayed there. A much higher scoring game than we expected.
Where it moved
▲ PHX better than we expected
▼ NY better than we expected
The first quarter was where it moved most, 15 points better than our numbers for the Suns.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Suns won, and why the Knicks did not.
From the game
Won the glass, 58 rebounds to 26- Kept giving it away, fourteen turnovers to their eight, and were outscored 16-8 off them
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Suns
Good plays
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run from level to 8 points up
Q1 5:22 · PHX 21-13 NY
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run stretched a 6-point lead to 14
Q1 3:29 · PHX 29-15 NY
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Knicks
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
- Technical
Othella Harrington Technical Foul
Q4 0:22 · PHX 111-95 NY
- Technical
Othella Harrington Technical Foul
Q4 0:22 · PHX 112-95 NY
📊The numbers
| PHX | NY | |
|---|---|---|
| 50% | Shooting from the field | 45% |
| 4 | Threes made | 4 |
| 25% | Three-point accuracy | 31% |
| 15 | Free throws made | 15 |
| 68 | Rebounds | 35 |
| 19 | Offensive rebounds | 4 |
| 19 | Assists | 21 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 6 | Fast break points | 6 |
| 8 | Points off turnovers | 16 |
| 14 | Turnovers | 8 |
| 4 | Steals | 6 |
| 4 | Blocks | 3 |
